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American sovereigns: the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War
Christian G. Fritz
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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1 Prologue (page 1)
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PART ONE. THE PEOPLE'S SOVEREIGNTY IN THE STATES (page 9)
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2 Revolutionary Constitutionalism (page 11)
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3 Grassroots Self-Government: America's Early Determinist Movements (page 47)
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4 Revolutionary Tensions: "Friends of Government" Confront "The Regulators" in Massachusetts (page 80)
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PART TWO. THE SOVEREIGN BEHIND THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION (page 117)
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5 The Federal Constitution and the Effort to Constrain the People (page 119)
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6 Testing the Constitutionalism of 1787: The Whiskey "Rebellion" in Pennsylvania (page 153)
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7 Federal Sovereignty: Competing Views of the Federal Constitution (page 190)
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PART THREE. THE STRUGGLE OVER A CONSTITUTIONAL MIDDLE GROUND (page 235)
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8 The Collective Sovereign Persists: The People's Constitution in Rhode Island (page 246)
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9 Epilogue (page 277)
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Key to Abbreviations (page 303)
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Notes (page 307)
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Selected Short Titles (page 403)
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Credits (page 411)
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Index (page 415)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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RAH | 37.4 (Dec. 2009): 537-543 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/v037/37.4.bodenhamer.html |
JIH | 39.4 (Spring 2009): 603-605 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history/v039/39.4.benedict.html |
Citable Link
Published: c2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780521125604 (paper)
- 9780521881883 (hardcover)
- 9780511474811 (ebook)